I've had friends with oral allergies. It's a shame, since there's so many veggies around Ithaca when there's not snow on the ground. OTOH, most of them time I couldn't have a raw food diet because my CSA gives me so much leafy veggies that if you don't cook them or blanch them for later cooking, then it's just very expensive compost. As is, on the weeks we get lettuce, I'll usually have 'ginormous salad' for at least one meal.

(That and most of the greens taste too strong raw -- I just discovered while I don't care for raw arugula, it's not bad cooked.)